Books of passage : 27 North Carolina writers on the books that changed their lives / edited by David Perkins ; illustrated by David Terry.

James Applewhite on William Wordsworth and William Carlos Williams -- Daphne Athas on Leo Tolstoy's Confessions -- Doris Betts on Hurlbut's Story of the Bible for young and old -- Jerry Bledsoe on Reynolds Price's A long and happy life -- Fred Chappell on Julia Child's Mastering the art of French cooking -- Hal Crowther on Alan Paton's Cry, the beloved country -- Clyde Edgerton on Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Linda Flowers on James Agee's Let us now praise famous men -- Philip Gerard on William Styron's Sophie's choice -- David Guy on Ernest Hemingway -- William McCranor Henderson on John Dos Passos' The big money -- Fred Hobson on W.J. Cash's The mind of the South -- Janet Lembke on Thomas Bulfinch's The age of fable -- William E. Leuchtenburg on Jonathan Daniels' A Southerner discovers the South -- Phillip Manning on Aldo Leopold's A Sand County almanac -- Tim McLaurin on The autobiography of Malcolm X -- Toril Moi on Simone de Beauvoir's The second sex -- Robert Morgan on Leo Tolstoy's War and peace -- Howard Owen on The Chip Hilton books -- Reynolds Price on Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary -- John Shelton Reed on The Agrarian's I'll take my stand -- Louis D. Rubin Jr. on Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel -- James Seay on William Faulkner's That evening sun go down -- Lee Smith on James Still's River of Earth -- Elizabeth Spencer on Willa Cather's Death comes for the archbishop -- Jane Tompkins on Robert Pirsig's Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance -- Tom Wicker on the Saturday evening post.